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The best news for the property sector to come from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget statement came not from any fiscal...
20 March 2024
From: Features
Zoopla is holding onto its predictions of a 2% average house price drop this year and said high- value regions in...
13 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Everyone’s a pundit these days, aren’t they? And January is pundit season – when a New Year starts, out come the...
20 January 2024
From: Features
Negative outlooks appear to be reducing amid property professionals as falling mortgage rates filter through to the housing market, according to...
18 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The last thing you want as we rake through the dying embers of 2023 is a journalist’s prediction of what’s going...
30 December 2023
From: Features
We’re now just 2 days away from the end of 2023 and what a year it’s been for the property industry....
30 December 2023
From: Features
Energy efficiency and “transaction niggles” are predicted to be key themes of 2024 for agents, buyers and sellers. Buying agent Stacks Property...
29 December 2023
From: Breaking News
In assessing the outlook for property auctions in 2024, it's crucial to look beyond interest rates. The real driving force behind...
23 December 2023
From: Features
The private rental landscape has been undergoing a profound transformation, with technology playing a pivotal role in shaping the way tenancies...
13 December 2023
From: Features
It’s that time of year already: Halloween’s happened, Bonfire Night’s blown itself out, and there’s now a feast of festivities leading...
07 November 2023
From: Breaking News
I’ve always been a half glass full kind of person. But I’ve got to confess I struggled to get too excited by...
06 November 2023
From: Breaking News
After a steady increase in mortgage rates, concerns about house prices have been rising too. The Financial Times reported in mid...
21 October 2023
From: Features
London and the Home Counties have topped the list of ‘hotspots’ for potential house sales, according to a new Pre Mover...
18 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Annual house price growth has returned to its lowest level since the pandemic, Land Registry data shows. The latest figures from the...
21 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Bard, correctly guessed what the UK’s average house price would be in the Land Registry’s monthly...
20 September 2023
From: Breaking News
As Summer makes way for Autumn, many in the sector are bracing themselves for storm-clouds. But should they be? Here, in his...
08 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Despite a 15-year peak in interest rates, one of Glasgow’s leading estate agents, Corum, has reported a 10% surge in viewings...
05 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors housing market snapshot shows the increasing damage being wrought by high interest rates. The RICS...
10 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Lloyds Banking Group has issued a slightly more positive house price outlook despite warning of increased pressure on mortgage affordability from...
27 July 2023
From: Breaking News
‘Schools out for Summer’ as the Alice Cooper song goes and the kids are not the only ones looking forward to...
22 July 2023
From: Features
The National Association of Property Buyers’ Jonathan Rolande gives his take on another manic week for the property market. Like many working in the...
14 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Prime London homeowners are turning to off-market sales to protect the value of their property, an industry executive claims. Property consultancy Tyburn,...
28 June 2023
From: Breaking News
The property market appears to have stalled in April and May, with official data showing a dip in house prices and...
02 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Sellers and their agents have become more confident about pricing but there are still some signs of “over-optimism” for higher priced...
22 May 2023
From: Breaking News
As Tennyson once observed…’.In the Spring, a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love…’.but not really. At the moment the...
29 April 2023
From: Features
Agents working with auctioneer iamproperty recorded record sales under the hammer during the first quarter of 2023, new research claims. A new...
25 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Property Academy is hosting a free webinar today where behavioural economist Roger Martin-Fagg will share his predictions for the property market...
28 March 2023
From: Breaking News
It's not often that I have sympathy for our glorious leaders – those who set the rules by which we all...
25 March 2023
From: Features
House prices could drop by almost 25% ‘start-to-trough’ or by as much as 40% in severe circumstances, Lloyds Banking Group has...
23 February 2023
From: Breaking News
New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...
07 January 2023
From: Features
Usually, I enter January with a spring in my step - optimistic about what the future holds. Two years ago, after the...
07 January 2023
From: Features
Talk of a housing market crash is overstated, Zoopla’s chief executive Charlie Bryant has claimed. Speaking in an exclusive video interview with Estate...
30 December 2022
From: Breaking News
Over the later part of 2022, we have experienced unprecedented economic and political turmoil, which will remain as we head into...
17 December 2022
From: Features
Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...
10 December 2022
From: Features
Aside from all the news surrounding the Autumn Statement this week, which will have a significant bearing on the property market...
19 November 2022
From: Features
Making predictions for the year ahead is notoriously difficult and leaves me open to having egg on my face, but I’m...
16 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Most agents are falling foul of anti-money laundering (AML) rules by accident but the sector could face more compliance-related fines by...
09 November 2022
From: Breaking News
The housing market is set to turn “sluggish” rather than experiencing a major slump, new predictions claim. Agency and property consultancy brand...
01 November 2022
From: Breaking News
With UK interest rates on the rise, following the mini-Budget announcement (now since almost entirely reversed), and several lenders pulling mortgage...
22 October 2022
From: Features
New research from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has highlighted further lost further momentum in the housing market during...
13 October 2022
From: Breaking News
For the third year running, mio, tmgroup and Conveyancing Data Services (CDS) are inviting property professionals to share their successes and...
12 October 2022
From: Features
The average monthly mortgage payment for a household buying a first-time buyer home would increase to £1,302 if the average mortgage...
28 September 2022
From: Breaking News
An estate agent has looked to loo roll to explain why he thinks house prices won’t crash but the pace of...
07 September 2022
From: Breaking News
In this guest piece, Kevin Shaw, National Sales Managing Director at Leaders Romans Group, looks at whether house prices will start to cool...
27 August 2022
From: Features
A few weeks ago, we saw widespread disruption due to record breaking 40°C heat in the UK. The extreme temperatures caused...
06 August 2022
From: Features
The housing market appears almost as stubborn as now caretaker Prime Minister Boris Johnson as it continues to defy predictions of...
08 July 2022
From: Breaking News
The Bank of England’s continued rise in interest rates – the latest being a shift up to 1.25% - is, in...
25 June 2022
From: Features
Buyers and sellers should focus on the Bank of England’s actions rather than words when it comes to the housing market,...
16 May 2022
From: Breaking News
Peta Milne, founder of Instagram growth and PR service Monimo, and a content writer at Choices Estate Agents, recently sat down...
05 March 2022
From: Features
An analyst is warning that the latest buoyant house price figures could be the last hurrah before a significant depression. The Nationwide’s...
03 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...
26 February 2022
From: Features
The chief executive of Belvoir says his agency has had 25 years of significant financial and business success - and much...
10 February 2022
From: Breaking News
The lettings sector looks set to steam ahead in 2022 after a record-breaking 2021, despite the financial and mobility challenges of...
22 January 2022
From: Features
With the drastic changes enacted on the industry over the past two years thanks to the pandemic and political events such...
22 January 2022
From: Features
As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...
15 January 2022
From: Features
Mortgage lenders serving the housing market are set for a quieter 2022 after the unprecedented levels of activity seen in 2021,...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News
The last 18 months have been full of ups and downs, but the property market has coped remarkably well during the...
04 December 2021
From: Features
Strutt & Parker has revealed where it believes the housing market will see the largest demand in 2022, outside of London. The...
10 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Agent wages have been in the news this week, with boastful claims from a number of self-employed businesses about the sums...
09 October 2021
From: Features
A leading market commentator is warning that transactions and prices will fall without the stimulus of the stamp duty holiday. Karen Noye,...
04 October 2021
From: Breaking News
As we move into the autumn of 2021, what the coming year has in store for estate agents is something we...
29 September 2021
From: Features
Estate agents are being urged to future-proof and diversify by linking with retirement developers via part-exchange services. Property investment service HBB Solutions...
08 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Estate agents have gone on the record to say the flow of purchasers from London to country and market town locations...
18 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...
12 June 2021
From: Features
The number of transactions is scheduled to reach 1.52 million this year - way above the norm of between 1.0 and...
26 May 2021
From: Breaking News
Another leading research team in a major agency has revised upwards its forecast for the 2021 market. Savills revised its predictions recently...
15 March 2021
From: Breaking News
Transactions and house price forecasts for the mainstream housing market are being revised upwards by Savills following the Budget. The new predictions follow an...
09 March 2021
From: Breaking News
This time out, I’m in conversation with one of the big three established portals. Since it was founded in 2007, Zoopla...
04 February 2021
From: Breaking News
As part of our third PayProp Special Report on COVID-19 rental arrears in the UK, we surveyed over 600 agents, tenants...
30 January 2021
From: Features
Property commentator Phil Spencer says lockdown - which we know will now last for another six weeks at least, and possibly...
28 January 2021
From: Breaking News
In a wide-ranging video interview for his Move iQ service, Phil Spencer speaks to buying agent and TV property pundit Henry...
23 January 2021
From: Features
The speed and success of the Coronavirus vaccine programme holds the key to the housing market rebounding in the second half...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News
The secure Conservative victory in the 2019 General Election meant the property market in the sunlit uplands was set for a...
28 November 2020
From: Features
The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...
27 October 2020
From: Legislation & Compliance
The latest Rightmove asking price index shows the extraordinary market and amazing times we are living through. The average price of property coming...
19 October 2020
From: Breaking News
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, better known as the furlough scheme, was introduced by the chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to...
26 September 2020
From: Features
For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...
12 September 2020
From: Features
Life as we know it has changed – for everybody – and what tenants want, need and expect in this post-pandemic...
15 August 2020
From: Features
The fallout from Covid-19 has hit everyone hard. With breaking news today that agents are able to look at how to...
13 May 2020
From: Features
Let me start by wishing everyone well in these uncertain and precarious times. I truly hope you, your families, friends and...
18 April 2020
From: Features
Over the last two weeks we’ve seen the country come to a standstill and the property market effectively put on ice...
01 April 2020
From: Features
The property franchise company Belvoir Lettings has laid off 15 workers from its Grantham headquarters - and warns there may be...
23 March 2020
From: Breaking News
The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...
07 March 2020
From: Features
Predictions that landlords are not buying properties to let out because of tougher rental taxes and regulations appear to be short...
19 February 2020
From: Breaking News
Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...
18 January 2020
From: Features
“There won’t be a single home but millions of different homes”, is one quote. “There will be an end to gadgets”, is...
18 December 2019
From: Breaking News
It’s only five weeks to the New Year and new decade and the first agents have started making predictions for the...
26 November 2019
From: Breaking News
A new house price index that in June predicted big house price rises over the summer has now repeated its claim,...
08 August 2019
From: Breaking News
London and South East England are to see house price falls this year and only “very modest” growth in 2020 -...
24 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...
23 July 2019
From: Breaking News
The estate agency industry is at a crossroads. A turbulent market, unstable political situation and a chronic lack of public confidence has...
05 June 2019
From: Features
The latest house price index shows very little happening in the market, with analysts expecting little significant movement until Brexit is...
03 June 2019
From: Breaking News
Consumer habits have changed massively over the past few years, and regardless of which market you operate in, being able to...
15 May 2019
From: Features
13 March 2019
From: Features
The latest analysis of new listings in the two weeks to last Friday show that online estate agencies continue to have...
11 March 2019
From: Breaking News
The former chief executive of Emoov says online estate agencies charge too little, so risk appearing cheap and ineffective to potential...
23 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Hello and welcome to 2019. These are less predictions and more expectations - developments following on from what’s happened in the past...
31 December 2018
From: Features
As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...